Tag: Higher Education
Delaware’s Students are Returning to Public Schools
March 15th, 2013
According to a recent report by the Delaware Department of Education, private school enrollment is the lowest it has been in over twenty years. Additionally, between the 2011-12 and 2012-13 school years, Delaware saw one of the most significant dips in private school enrollment, losing 8.4 percent of its population. At the same time, public...VIEW ARTICLE
March 15, 2013
Early Childhood Education, News, Policy and Practice
March 15th, 2013
Local News The Economist Value-added remodeling “This business”, says John Demby, the principal (headmaster) of Sussex Tech, a high school in Delaware, “has changed dramatically in a very short period.” This year, like all principals in the state, he is evaluating teachers under a new system for the first time. The state is also adopting a...VIEW ARTICLE
March 13, 2013
Early Childhood Education, News, Policy and Practice
March 13th, 2013
Local News The News Journal Colonial School District may slash staff, sports in cuts Superintendent Dorothy Linn shared her proposal at a school board meeting at George Read Middle School on East Basin Road near New Castle. She stated that academics would not be spared. The district would jettison a plan to participate in a new statewide...VIEW ARTICLE
March 11, 2013
March 11th, 2013
Local News The News Journal Delaware's education policies honored with national award Delaware has won a national award for its education policies from the Education Commission of the States. The 2013 Frank Newman Award for State Innovation goes to “states and territories for enacting innovative education reforms or implementing innovative...VIEW ARTICLE